Kelen B. Flynn

March 19, 1929 - January 2, 2019

Funeral services for Kelen Bernice Smith Flynn, 89, of Frankfort, will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at Harrod Brothers Funeral Home with burial to follow at Frankfort Cemetery. Pastor Rick Clark will officiate. Visitation will be at the funeral home on Monday, January 7, 2019, from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Ms. Flynn was born in Laurel County, Kentucky on March 19, 1929. She came to Frankfort in 1946 where she went to work for Union Underwear. She worked there on and off for 30 years. She was a dedicated Christian and a faithful member of Central Baptist Church in Anderson County. The daughter of Ulysses Grant and Kitty Ellender Wombles Smith, she was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles Edward Flynn; three brothers, Marshall Keith Smith, Kenneth Eugene Smith, and Troy Ernest Smith; one sister, Phyllis Smith Knight; and a grandson, Jared Scott Hockensmith. Ms. Flynn is survived by six daughters, Marilyn Bell, Dianna Gaines, Lisa Wilhoite, Charlotte Flynn, Vanessa Eastman, and Stephanie (Chris) Warfield, all of Frankfort; three sisters, Beulah (Kenneth) Rossberg, Crane, Oregon, Carolyn Goodman, Oklahoma, and Shirley Moore, Bend, Oregon; and two brothers, Ulysses Grant Smith, Jr., Eugene, Oregon, and Charles Edward Smith, Ontario, Oregon. She is also survived by ten grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Jeffrey Wilhoite, Jana Sanchez, Julie Bell, Brent DeZarn, Terrence DeZarn and Tyler DeZarn. Flowers are welcome or expressions of sympathy in Ms. Flynn’s memory may be sent to Central Baptist Church, 1958 US 127 Bypass North, Lawrenceburg, KY 40342. Arrangements are under the direction of Harrod Brothers Funeral Home.